Obama has received a three-page letter from Gaddafi urging him to intervene and stop the Western air campaign against his forces.

However, Clinton insisted that the Libyan leader must withdraw his forces and go into exile.

“Gaddafi knows what he must do. There needs to be a ceasefire, his forces need to withdraw from the cities that they have forcibly taken at great violence and human cost,” Sky News quoted Clinton, as saying.

“There needs to be a decision made about his departure from power and his departure from Libya,” she added.

Referring to Obama as “our son”, Gaddafi had urged the US President to end an “unjust war against a small people of a developing country”.

“You are in a position to keep NATO off the Libyan affair for good. Our dear son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu oumama, your intervention is the name of the USA is a must, so that NATO would withdraw finally from the Libyan affair,” Gaddafi wrote in the letter.

“You will always remain our son whatever happened. We endeavor and hope that you will gain victory in the new election campaign. You are a man who has enough courage to annul a wrong and mistaken action,” he added.

Gaddafi’s appeal to Obama came as Libyan rebels regained ground in a new advance on an oil port. (ANI)